Wheel Nuts And Wheels!

[skyhighR33]

guys just a qiuck question when i brought my car i didn't check my wheel nuts as the bloke said he just got new tyres at the tyre place, the cra is 4 stud. i was driving along and hear a clunk clunk!! i stop to check it out, nothing so i got it home(only had to go 50m), and checked the tyres, turns out that the wheel nuts were loose(f**king was kicking myself for not checking the early when i got it) and noticed that the rest was a bit loose.

question is do 4 stud wheels undo easy or is this weird

[Min_R32]

4 stud or 5 stud shouldnt just come loose like that. I say tighten them properly and see how you go =)

[Madaz]

lol torque them up and they wont come undone till you undo them

[JDM032]

sorry to say steve but ur wrong.

ive worked at numerous tyres places n seen this too many times.

make sure ur nuts are tight and torqued up properly to manufacturers specs.

drive the car for 50km and i can assure u the nuts will have come a bit loose

so u recheck ur nuts 50 km later

coz they grip up wen torquing but havent bitten into the metal properly

so retorquing them makes sure they wont come loose

not sure bout u but i know i wouldnt want to lose my nuts while driving

[Madaz]

na never had this problem

only problem i had one was when they went torque'd from me and Simon putting on my bigger rotors and gtst calipers and started making a noise

[ted180]

na never had this problem

ditto.

[skyhighR33]

i did tighten them up pretty tight as i am a big bloke might go and re check them. also when you take the caliper off are the front disks mean to seperate easy, must be on these cars.

[Madaz]

if they've been off recently might separate easily but when i did my brake conversion we had to screw a blot in to separate the rotors

[rad100]

i did the same thing when i put my rims back on for regency! didnt do the second tighten lol lucky i had the tools in the car! pulled over and tightened them up lol MY bad!!